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Red at the Bone Cover:Hardcover ”—The Washington PostAn extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length,